PepsiCo hires really intelligent, driven workers, and you will know fairly quickly if you can keep up or not; breadth of categories, brands, and functions you can gain exposure to is a huge plus; self-motivated employees with natural talent and who know how to put ideas into action are the most successful; your colleagues and managers will generally be friendly and collaborative.

Cons

Quality of managers can vary, and PepsiCo does not have a good system in place for training managers; re-orgs are frequent, which means job security is only guaranteed until its your division that is going through re-org; opportunity for promotion may stagnate depending on your field.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Establish a consistent philosophy among employees with direct reports; train managers to develop their people; invest in those who have potential and deliver results, not in people who are the best at networking and saying "yes" to everything

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